Scientists have uncovered the world’s oldest social network, a web of connections that flourished 50,000 years ago and stretched for thousands of miles across Africa.
But unlike its modern electronic equivalent, this ancient web of social bonds used a far more prosaic medium. It relied on the sharing and trading of beads made of ostrich eggshells one of humanity’s oldest forms of personal adornment.
The research by scientists in Germany involved the study of more than 1,500 of these beads, which were dug up at more than 30 sites across southern and east Africa. Careful analysis suggests that people who made
Homo who? A new mystery human species has been discovered in Israel
By Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Brisbane Australia, Jun 25 The Conversation An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution.Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have recovered a skull that may represent a late-surviving example of a distinct Homo population, which lived in and around modern-day Israel from about 420,000 to 120,000 years ago.
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By Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Brisbane (Australia), Jun 25 (The Conversation) An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution.
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